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We used to get a load of calendars and diaries around the change of the year, mainly from the feed merchants, auctioneers and garages that we patronised but get none of that now, only thing I do get now is a diary from my local NFU and a calendar from a local auctioneers. I think it's the cost of having these things produced that's stopped them now! Sean, you still find quite a lot of hessian sacks around our area at farm sales, I bought several bundles a few years ago at a sale that totalled about 500. Still got a lot of them hung up to the roof beam in a barn to keep the rats and mice out of them. Before we had an indoor corn bin we used to put all our barley in hessian sacks off the combine, mammoth job going through them before harvest to sow up any holes in them with sisal string and bagging needle!

Here's the keyring Bill. Damn tricky to take a reasonable pic of it but hope it's ok.

It doesn't come apart Bill, like yours, once it was either blunt or busted you chucked it. It's nice that at least some of these sort of items just got forgot about and survived, I reckon you'd be luky to find anything of this sort nowadays and companies don't advertise with these little 'give-away's' as they did then, lucky if you get a 'cheapo' pen that won't write! Claas do a nice bottle opener.

I believe Bill that it was from around the time that the NH 'Super-Hayliner balers came out between the mid to late 1960's, I found it in the sealed polythene bag that contained the model 68 baler owners manual together with a keyring that is a ball of 'Red Star' baler twine. I'll post up a pic of that as well if you would like to see it.

I have something of the same sort in amongst my collection of agricultural advertising ephemora. I think that it could be interpreted as 'the key to good bales' Turn it over and it has a little slider on it............... Slide it forward to the point of the key and out comes a very sharp little Stanley type steel blade.

The bonnet side panels would have been one piece as well, it was only the very first white 770's that had the 2 part side panels. It's only too easy to be critical.

Looks like the unpainted master Joe. Front axle is wrong, it's from the 770/780 in real life, the correct axle should be what was called the 'fabricated' type, same that was fitted to the 880 on. He's basically just modified his previous 770 models. 885 also were factory fitted with 32 inch rear wheels, 28's were optional on request from the customer.

I had the same in the post this morning Bill.

It would look better with either the frame and black roof or a complete cladded cab but he's done it in the 'Continental European export' style of which was normal for France as well. I have a pair of his 770's he did a few years ago, the red and the white Selectamatic models but I'm going to have to think long and hard as to wheather this one will be added to my D.B. collection or no.

There were 2 types of roof panel on these cabs, the one on the model under construction for the normal Sekura cab is correct but if you wish it to be the LP (Low Profile) type cab then the roof was more like the one on the picture of the 996.

If you look above D.B. and just below the spoked wheel there looks to be a Lister engine there as well by the look of that exhaust perforated pot and on the top and just behind another sort of engine or large pump of some sort.

The golf 'buggie' Bill is interesting. Did you know that Arnold Palmers father purchased one that used Model T Ford engine and chassis many years ago for his course in the USA? I have a model of it. Described as 'Arnie's tractor', it was bought by his father in the late 1940's for ground maitenance hence the butt on the back. It's 1:12 scale.

It's a 2D Sue, market garden type tractor made between 1958-61, looks like this. A very desirable and now quite rare tractor. [img alt=David Brown 2D Farm Tractors - width=137 height=103]http://images-partners-tbn.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRICYi54EJyLtHO9-Ho-TslK6KxlWIVtJwJomOVrPjJWAiXnzJmJEkG9qQ:farm2.staticflickr.com/1304/4702781850_3a418238d1_z.jpg

Well, it's that time of year once again when we are being bombarded with cut-price offers from TV ads to try to prize money that we don't have out of us. Turkeys, geese, ducks and chicken are dying like flies and everyone's buisy buisy buisy. Where has this year gone? At least this year we can get about, not like last year this time when we were all stuck and could not travel about much and freezing our bits off. Although very cold here on Dartmoor, at least we can still see the grass and get around to do our work and the shopping. Happy Christmas and a prosperous 2012 to you all and may most, if not all, your wishes come true.

Have been relieving turkeys of their feathers today.

I was at one time waiting for a 'recorded' delivery that was massively overdue so rang The Post Office and giving them the 'tracking' number asked where the package was. They told me that the only way they knew where the item was, was if it had been delivered and the recipient had 'signed' for it. I asked them, why charge for or use a sevice that in effect is non-existant?, this they could not or would not answer. Obviously, not every sorting office a package passes through bothers to scan the attached label. You can go on-line and use their 'tracking' service, type in the tracking number and submit the search and a message comes up telling you that it may take 3 weeks to process your search, check back from time to time. You will, in the main, receive a better service of delivery if you send stuff by ordinary second class standard post I find.

Royal mail cannot 'track' anything sent in the post whether sent recorded or not, the only way they know where an item is, is if it has reached its destination and has been 'signed for' by the recipient. Your best bet is to find out the buyers email address, which should appear in your 'payments' list in your PayPal account and email him a scan of the receipt of postage with a polite message stating that 'here is proof of postage'. You cannot be held responsible for the item once it has left your hands. As far as I am aware, he is covered by PayPal who will refund the amount which will not affect you. You can prove that you sent it but he can't prove that he has not received it so you have the more 'right'.

The hitch on it is a sort of cast in flat with an upright pin for implements with a ring hitch. Decals on the bonnet sides are yellow with black 'farm king' printed on them with a black star.

'Farm king' was its name produced by Lone Star in the mid 1960's. I have one boxed somewhere in the pile.

S'pose I better come clean. Dartmoor, not far from the prison.

My Mother.

Unfortunateley, allis8550 is quite correct, no matter what the circumstances, if you rear-end another vehicle the blame is squared on you, that's why these scammers chose to be hit in this manner knowing, that if their scam is not detected, that your insurance company pays for the damage. Write a letter to your local newspaper to make others aware and to look out for this sort of thing.

This sort of 'scam' was reported on the TV the other day, a programme called 'Dirty rotten scoundrells'. This is defrauding insurance companies of millions a year. I bet that the vehicle they were driving had false plates on at the time as well. If anyone has the presence of mind, you should, if involved in any accident, take a picture of the vehicle, the driver and the registration number, even if you don't carry a camera most of us carry a mobile phone.

Tractors, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, commercial vehicles and other such vehicles are concidered or classified as classic if they were manufactured after 1959 but before 1972.

Cab interior varied depending on what came down the line, magpie Case decalled tractors, white, black with the red wheels predominantly had grey interior, earlier red/white 90 series David Brown had black dash pod and interior trim and the late Case IH red and black with wheel rims in silver had grey dash and black trim. I think from memory that all the 94 series had grey dash.